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[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 8 points 1 hour ago

And now:

Trump clarifies some of the tariffs were actually 245% for some unknown reason

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 hour ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump never dropped tariffs on China, did he?

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (11 children)

What a fucked up world where we are cheering on China. Fucking trump.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

What moral high ground you think you had before?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Red > orange

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

If they suck at each other, then that's way less bad. Root for simultaneous knockout punches.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

They both suck.

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[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 70 points 1 day ago (10 children)
[–] Trihilis@ani.social 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Big flex from China. I'm waiting for a country to call trump's bluff by putting an export tax on their own goods sent to the USA.

[–] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago

Canada should have done this on everything. If the Americans can afford the tariff then there is room for us to charge more. Not really but yeah should do it.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago

All the more reason for MAGAs to hate China - they were MEAN to Daddy!

[–] gargolito@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] rustbuckett@lemmings.world 63 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago
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[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn't this happen last time? Less dramatically, but still.

He puts in a bunch of tariffs. China reciprocates. The market is thrown into chaos. He shouts and screams. China ignores him. He backtracks. China ends the tariffs but doesn't do anything to try and appease him. He claims it's a victory. His fluffers say the tariffs were just to bring China to the table, which justifies the hit to the market, despite the fact China didn't come to the table and President Pigshit didn't articulate what China could actually give him to end the tariffs.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Yes, but this time he also decided to tariff the whole world.

[–] MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 211 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Everyone is somehow missing China cutting off rare earth metals the US relies on for technology and defense

[–] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 156 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It wasn't just stopping exports to the US, they've stopped exporting rare earth elements worldwide starting yesterday. Plus, they are starting to unload billion of debt we owe them. It's almost as if Trump is intentionally trying to destroy our country in the morning, and then later in the day he wants to be the bully negotiator without understanding his precarious position.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (21 children)

You remember r/shitamericanssay? Last time he won, there were a lot of people talking about stuff Europe has but America doesn't, and, if you browse the posts there, a lot of Americans responding how Europe is backwards, in the stone age, and what they do have is paid for by America, out of benevolence.

Well, those folks are in charge now.

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[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wish somebody told him he didn't have the cards.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 40 points 1 day ago

The cards are made in China

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 346 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I think Xi might have figured out Trump’s secret. He has no fucking clue what he’s doing. He scares people into reacting by being reckless, then claims a win for getting a reaction.

Ignoring trolls takes their power away.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 161 points 1 day ago (23 children)
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[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Despite that, Fox News will continue stacking his invisible laurels. Doesn't matter if his policy does anything. All that matters is that his followers are convinced that the policies are doing something.

[–] parody@lemmings.world 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Everyone turn on your ad blocker and go look at that website, it’s (2024-)incredible it’s legal to be so disingenuous

I made the mistake of visiting yesterday and I will never not be dumber because I read their first seven headlines plus at least a dozen comments

That’s right, those headlines are the dumbest things you’ve ever seen on the planet… but then you scroll to the bottom of an article

Pray for me

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